When Elizabeth Sarah Fowler was born on 15 May 1858, in Sawtry, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Samuel Fowler, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Dilley, was 26. She married Thomas Augustus Furniss Sr. on 9 January 1878, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States in 1860 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 30 August 1919, in Moreland, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Moreland, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1860: Millard, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Millard, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: occupational name for a fowler, a hunter or trapper of wild birds (a common medieval occupation), from Middle English fogheler, fugheler (Old English fugelere, a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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